First of all listen to this clip...its worth your time. Come Thou Fount I love this song, so much that I spent a good half hour listening and watching it over and over again. About the third time through though I decided I definitely needed to look into the ebenezer part because all I could think of was Ebenezer Scrou ' ge. The line actually comes from the bible, after Samuel the prophet has miraculously defeated his enemies. "Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen and called the name of it Ebenezer saying hitherto hath the Lord Helped us (1st Sam 7:12)." This ebenezer is a rock, in essence an alter to praise God. All of a sudden the song made sense. As we go through out trials and through joyful times we must continually raise our own ebenezers, acknowledging the hand of God in our lives in all times.
Here I raise my ebenezer-- online. I am so grateful for all that the Lord has done for me!
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This is one of my favourites since 9th grade. We just did it in ward choir and no one knew what an ebenezer was.
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